The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1932, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1932. AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

The coming presidential election in the United St-tes is looming large with ; the people ox that country, . and tor, some time past conventions have beui .held ia the valiums States for t.,e purpose of dec.id.ng the various, candidates to be nominated for the high position. According to a recent visitor to the Dominion the Democrats have been steadily- gaining the goodwill of the people- Lack of leadership in the Republican camp could be blamed for this to a very large extent. The only ray of hope for the Republican machine and ’the election of President Hoover would be his by endorsement of Senator Borah. Senator Borah was responsible for his election in 1928 as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He deals with all subjects relating to Joans to foreign Governments, and any measure that effects America, and foreign countries conic a, under his consideration. He is, therefore. a very powerful influence in the Republican Party, and probably one of the most powerful men to-day in American politics. Senator Borah has denounced the platform of. the Republicans as being inadequate-to meet tho present economic situation; in America. The plank concerning prohibition Icloes not meet with his approval, and although lie has nor expressed himself as forming a third party he is sufficiently powerful to he able to do that and get .all the ‘drys’ behind him. A new development in the general position is. that the present Speaker of the House of Representatives, John H. Garner, of . Texas, has the possibility of being,nominated at the national Democratic Convention at Chicago because, although a ‘dry,’ he has definitely come out for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. That- is quite a new phrase of the situation. Texas will vote solidly for Garner. The other possibilities are Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor Ritchie'of Maryland, and Newton Baker, ' who was -Secretary of War during the "Wilson administration and a candidate who at the present moment lias great chances. " Jowett Shouse will be the chairman at the convention, but the dominating spirit will be Alfred E. Smith, late Governor of the .State of New ’-Yorks-* The se’eptjon, of the candidate mnstyle Tateneiely interesting under such . crnkUtioni:, If they ran* not agree on a -candidate thpre is a jxv-gibility they may (lvd-ft Alfred E. Smith ns nr candidate, although he is not looking for nornination, The paramount issue at the convention will be a very definite platform on prohibition, reparations, and war debts. Tlie present House of Representatives is overwhelmingly Democratic, and the Senate is almost Democratic. Every election that has taken place in the lr«t year, even in Republican States, has indicated a tremendous majority in favour of the Democrats, largely became of the lack of leadership in the Republican Party. The Democrats will have a definite platform to submit to the American people, and that is what the people want to-day. Promises that cannot be fulfilled aP-e not worth the paper they are written on. The issue is of special interest at the present time when , the attitude of the American President is having such an important effect on world politico.